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“ITnet/HEAnet Integration Project”
Owen Byrne
(Managed Network Services)
HEAnet Conference
Lyrath Hotel, Kilkenny,
14th November 2008
Agenda
• Background Info
• Project Initiation/Implementation
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Project Team, Steering Committee
Pilot Project Phase
• Delivering Connectivity
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Government MANs
ESBT
Other providers
Current & Future Work
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Additional Projects (National Backbone Extension)
Service Resilience (Equipment, power)
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Key Outcomes
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Q&A
Agenda
• Background Info
•
Project Initiation/Implementation
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•
Project Team, Steering Committee
Pilot Project Phase
Delivering Connectivity
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•
Government MANs
ESBT
Other providers
Current & Future Work
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Additional Projects (National Backbone Extension)
Service Resilience (Equipment, power)
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Key Outcomes
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Q&A
Background:
• 13 IoTs included in
Project
• DIT & Tipp Inst already
HEAnet clients
• 3 x Services
– General IP (aka Internet)
– An Cheim MIS systems
– Commodity IP
A (very) Brief History
• 1998, 1999 ITnet network established (2Mb/s)
– Replaced “RTCnet”
• Until recently: access connectivity provided by
Eircom
– ATM infrastructure (45Mb/s per IoT)
• IP addressing & IP Transit provided via HEAnet
Times Past: ITnet - HEAnet
Then, two reports:
• Commissioned by HEA on behalf of
Department of Education & Science
• Sonas & Molloy (2003/2004)
– Sonas Innovation: technical review
– Dr. Molloy: governance & management structure
Agenda
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Background Info
• Project Initiation/Implementation
– Project Team, Steering Committee
– Pilot Project Phase
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Delivering Connectivity
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•
Government MANs
ESBT
Other providers
Current & Future Work
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Additional Projects (National Backbone Extension)
Service Resilience (Equipment, power)
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Key Outcomes
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Q&A
Summer 2005: Project Initiation
• Steering Committee created
• Project team established
• Joint scoping and technical requirements
document produced
• Pilot Project commences (ITB, WIT, LIT)
– Followed by approval to include all IoTs
Project Team
Implementation Team
Project Manager
Martin McCarrick
Brian Boyle
Owen Byrne
John Boland
Steering Committee
HEA
DES
Council of Directors
IUA (CHIU)
DIT
Mary Kerr
Ian McKenna
Brendan Murphy, Tim Creedon
Michael Nowlan, Brendan Tolan
David Scott
Agenda
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Background Info
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Project Initiation/Implementation
– Project Team, Steering Committee
– Pilot Project Phase
• Delivering Connectivity
– Government MANs
– ESBT
– Other providers
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Current & Future Work
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Additional Projects (National Backbone Extension)
Service Resilience (Equipment, power)
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Key Outcomes
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Q&A
Delivering Connectivity
• Fibre Contracts
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ESB Telecom – national ring (1300 Km)
e-net – MANs: Galway, Limerick, Cork, Athlone, Letterkenny (200Km)
Public procurement process
BT, UPC, Dublin City Council
• Service Delivery
• VLAN and EoMPLS services to implement Point-to-point links
• Cisco hardware and CWDM optics
• Adva DWDM platform
Government MANs
Wavelength Division
Multiplexing
Combining
signals
Ethernet
transmitters
Different light frequencies (colours)
over a single fibre path
Separating
signals
Ethernet
receivers
• CWDM in access network (1470nm – 1610nm. 8 x
channels, modulated at 1Gbit/s)
• DWDM in backbone. Each channel capable of
10Gbit/s
ESBT Backbone
• General IP, Commodity IP, An
Cheim peerings all in Dublin
• Connect e|net rings to regional
PoP
• Connect regional PoP to
national backbone (e|net ring)
• Additional fibre procured from:
– Dublin City Council
– UPC
– BT (Athlone, Carlow, Tralee)
BT Fibre
• IT Blanchardstown – Servecentric
• IADT, Dun Laoghaire – Citywest
• IADT – Servecentric (soon)
• Athlone IT – NUI Galway
• Athlone IT – Servecentric
• IT Tralee – UCC
• IT Tralee – UL
• Carlow IT – Waterford IT
• Carlow IT - Citywest
Milestones
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2006: First IoTs connect to HEAnet
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Limerick IT & Waterford IT
Steering Group approve migration of all IoTs
IT Blanchardstown
Letterkenny IT
GMIT & DKIT
2007: Further Migrations & Service Production
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July:
August:
October:
November:
December:
Feb:
April:
April:
October:
Sligo IT & Cork IT Migrated
An Cheim Service goes live
Commodity IP peering with GN established
Tallaght, Athlone, Carlow IT Migrations
2008: Towards Completion
– Jan:
– Jan:
– Sept:
24/7 Cover Introduced
IADT, Dun Laoghaire Migration
Tralee IT Migration
Apr-07
Jan-08
An Cheim Service
Aug-06
SG Approval
24/7 Cover
May-07
Commodity IP Service
Nov-06
Sep-08
GMIT
Jul-06
LIT
Jul-06
Oct-06
Feb-07
ITB
Sligo IT
Oct-06
Jan-07
Apr-07
30-May-06
Jul-06
WIT
Nov-06
LYIT
Dec-06
Feb-07
DKIT
Cork IT
Oct-06
Pilot Complete
Jul-07
IT Tralee
Oct-07
Oct-07
IT Carlow
Tallaght IT
Oct-07
Jan-08
Oct-07
Jan-08
Athlone IT
IADT
Apr-08
Jul-08
24-Sep-08
Agenda
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Background Info
•
Project Initiation/Implementation
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Project Team, Steering Committee
Pilot Project Phase
Delivering Connectivity
– Government MANs
– ESBT
– Other providers
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Current & Future Work
– Additional Projects (National Backbone Extension)
– Service Resilience (Equipment, power)
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Key Outcomes
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Q&A
Current/Future Work
• Pre 2005:
– IoTs, individual clients of ITnet network
– Single peering point with HEAnet
• Now:
– Established as 13 new individual HEAnet clients
– Dual HEAnet connections (5 remain)
– Benefit from current & future HEAnet projects
• National Backbone Extension: phases 3 & 4
– Point-to-point connectivity (on demand)
– 10Gig lambdas for Research
• Equipment/Service Resilience
National Backbone Extension
(Phase 3)
• 80 applications received for connectivity
(15/05/07)
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From 27 Client Institutions
56 approved by selection committee
19 IoT circuit requests approved
3 additional IoT requests approved under NBE-4
• 22 IoT circuits (Total):
– Primary Campus Resilience
– Off campus transparent LAN services
Connectivity to Remote
Campus Sites
• Carlow IT
– Wexford Campus
– Wicklow Campus (Rathnew)
• LYIT
– Tourism & Catering College,
Killybegs
• WIT
– TSSG, Carriganore
– College St.
– Confederation House
• GMIT
– Castlebar
– Letterfrack
– Cluain Mhuire
• Limerick IT
– School of Art & Design
• Cork IT
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Cork School of Music
NMCI
Crawford College
Blackrock Observatory
Connectivity Solutions
• Public procurement process (RfT) held
• Dark Fibre (BT, e|net, Magnum Opus)
– NMCI: Phase I and phase II MAN interconnected
• Managed Ethernet Solutions (e|net, BT)
– Typically EoSDH
• Licensed Microwave (Airspeed Telecom, NWE)
Service Resilience
• Path resilience
– Currently implemented
– Diverse paths into campus
• Power Resilience at PoPs
– Backup generators
– UPS
• Equipment Resilience
– Additional backbone MPLS nodes at PoPs
– Duplicate CPE router at client sites
Agenda
•
Background Info
•
Project Initiation/Implementation
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•
Project Team, Steering Committee
Pilot Project Phase
Delivering Connectivity
– Government MANs
– ESBT
– Other providers
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Current & Future Work
– Additional Projects (National Backbone Extension)
– Service Resilience (Equipment, power)
• Key Outcomes
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Q&A
Key Outcomes
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WIT
Bandwidth
Latency
International Peerings
Point-to-point Circuits
– WIT (10Gig), Berlin p2p
• Native service support (IPv6,
Multicast...)
• Efficiencies of Scale
– Larger HEAnet client base
– Scope for increased
collaboration
– Trial projects (IPTV streams…)
CIT
Summary
• 13 additional HEAnet clients (almost 50% increase)
– Intro of 24/7 (note: with feedback from existing client base)
– Radically different network architecture than pre-2005
• Patience & cooperation of all stakeholders
– Provider delays
– Inconvenience of civil works etc. on campus
– Scheduled maintenance to migrate services
• Further work
– Additional connectivity to remote campuses
– Service resilience
– Existing HEAnet service suite
• Questions?